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  • About Me

    I'm an Assistant Professor at University of Denver. I'm the author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, a novel about a Korean adoptee who investigates her brother's suicide. I write fiction, poetry, and essays. My work has been translated into Korean, Italian, Turkish, and French. My teaching interests include Asian American literature, trans and queer literature, ambiguity, and nonhumans.

  • Fiction

    Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney's) 2017

    Winner of the Whiting Award in Fiction 2018

    Winner of a Barnes and Noble Discover Award 2017

    Long-listed for the Republic of Consciousness Prize in The Times Literary Supplement

    Available in Korea, Turkey, Italy, France, the UK, and Australia

    An excerpt from the book at The Paris Review online


    Reviews in The Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle, LA Review of Books, The Irish Times, Ploughshares, Pleiades, The Colorado Review, Diagram, The Rumpus, The Portland Mercury, The Sydney Morning Herald, Entropy Magazine, The Skinny, and more.


    Selected Short Stories

    Forthcoming "The Hole" in Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories, ed. Hannah Tinti (Algonquin)

    "The Loser", Ploughshares (Guest Editor Aimee Bender) Summer 2021

    "Modern Nature", Burrow Press (a collaboration with Sarah Gerard)

    "Dog", 7x7LA (a collaboration with Sarah Gerard)

    "My Abyss", Hazlitt

    "Fixation", Granta 

    "Peace", The White Review

    "Young Robert", Bomb Magazine

    "No One Makes Plans" Gulf Coast

     

    Guest Editor

    I was fortunate to guest edit a queer fiction issue of McSweeney's Quarterly with the help of a lot of people. I love how the issue turned out. You can find a copy of it here. You can read an edited version of my introduction to the issue here.

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This portfolio last updated: 08-Aug-2021 9:02 PM